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Radical surgery saves life of young mom

A team led by Dr. Alan Hemming, transplant surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, has successfully performed the West Coast's first ex-vivo liver resection, a radical procedure to completely remove and reconstruct a diseased ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NYC recommends AIDS drugs for any person with HIV

Health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bioengineers reprogram muscles to combat degeneration

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle. Moreover, they showed in mice that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New link found between obesity and insulin resistance

Obesity is the main culprit in the worldwide avalanche of type 2 diabetes. But how excess weight drives insulin resistance, the condition that may lead to the disease, is only partly understood. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ALK rearrangement found in nearly 10 percent of patients in Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium

ALK rearrangement has been found in 9.6% of lung cancer patients tested in the Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium, and MET amplification in another 4.1%, reflecting how many patients might benefit from targeted therapies such ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'All-natural' bodybuilders don't use performance-enhancing drugs

ST. LOUIS - When Keith Hunter competes in a bodybuilding contest, he actually wants to have a polygraph test and urinalysis. That way he knows he'll get a fair shake.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Where you live drives wait for liver transplants

(AP) -- Doctors dropped another bomb soon after telling Matthew Rosiello it was time for a liver transplant: The 21-year-old isn't likely to get one any time soon in his home state of New York. Consider traveling ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lampreys give clues to evolution of immune system

Biologists have discovered that primitive, predatory lampreys have structures within their gills that play the same role as the thymus, the organ where immune cells called T cells develop in mammals, birds and fish.

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plant-derived scavengers prowl the body for nerve toxins

The brain is forever chattering to itself, via electrical impulses sent along its hard-wired neuronal "Ethernet." These e-messages are translated into chemical transmissions, allowing communication across ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Only 5 percent of cancer research funds are spent on metastases, yet it kills 90 percent of all cancer patients

On average, about five percent of total cancer research funding is spent on investigating metastases (the spread of cancer cells around the body) in Europe, yet metastatic disease is the direct or indirect cause of 90 percent ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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